Vice prime minister: Early elections not a factor in possible Iran strike
Vice prime minister: Early elections not a factor in possible Iran strike | The Times of Israel.
Moshe Yaalon says ‘Iranian issue is beyond other considerations,’ but 1981 Osirak attack echoes
“Elections will not be a factor on the Iran issue,” said Moshe Yaalon, vice prime minister, minister of strategic affairs and former IDF chief of General Staff on Wednesday to Maariv. “If we need to make decisions, we will. The Iranian issue is beyond other considerations. The Iranian issue is dealt with in a balanced way, and political considerations won’t dictate decisions in any direction,” Yaalon said.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said things in a similar vein on Tuesday, responding to a question on his Facebook page. Barak wrote that “during elections the executive branch continues to function normally, so elections will not affect professional considerations with regards to the Iranian issue.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to call for September 4th elections next Sunday at the Likud party convention, a full year before they were to have taken place, in a move seen as an attempt to consolidate power for the right-wing coalition for another four years.
A strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities is expected to be a major election issue. In 1981, Menachem Begin’s Likud retained power in general elections which took place three weeks after Israel bombed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor. At the time, Begin’s authorization of the raid was seen as a major factor in his victory.
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WarSclerotic 
May 2, 2012 at 1:44 PM
The elections, which are now looming from the israeli political wood, won’t be a factor to influence the decision to act towards Iran.
In my opinion, that decision was taken a long time ago. The bullet is in the gun.